2019 Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award Archives

2019 QPF Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award Winners

Verity La September 6, 2019 New, Poetry

Queensland Poetry Festival’s Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its fifth year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers, Philip Bacon. All the paintings used in the competition …

Normal, living, human beings (Kit Riley)March 5, 2019
Edited by Amanda Tink Introduction We used to be held in bodies. Tiny electrical rhythms, the firing of nerves and neurons, contained us within the forms of our descendants. Most ... Read More
there is no way to repair shadows while we’re alive (Nathan Shepherdson)May 27, 2018
i heat the stone until its eye opens invite its callus-scraped duct to extrude lava in sentences memory magma pushes through an axial sleeve from a thousand miles down to ... Read More
Changing the Map: On Rape Culture in Australia (Julianne Negri)September 24, 2019
Edited by Kathryn Hummel ‘We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change.’ — Ursula Le Guin Predawn. I like ... Read More